Fountain-brush.



W L. CLARK.

FOUNTAIN BRUSH. APPLIQATIM FILED 110?.13, 1906 Ax aVA v/ E E Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

WALTER L. ommx, ornnw YORK, N. Y.

FOUNTAIN-BET] SH.

953,372. Specification of letter n Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

App ttion filed November 18, 1906. Serial No. 343,273.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER L. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fountain- Brushes, of which the following is a speciilCltllQIl.

This invention relates to fountain brushes of that type in which the handle .of the brush is made hollow and thus adapted to receive and conceal a detachable receptacle containing the material to be applied by the brush and located in position to discharge its contents upon the bristles.

My improvements relate more particu larly to the construction of thereservoir or receptacle for the material and re the manner of combining the same with the brush proper and providing for the expulsion of 1ts, contents, and are herein represented as embodied in a shaving brush, being par ticularly intended to provide aserviceable brush of this character which Will have certain advantageous features hereinafter set forth. e I

In theaccoinpanyin'g drawings, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section through a shaving brush embodying my im )rovements, the clutch members hereinafter escribed being shown in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of, Fig. 1, showin 7 the inner end of a cap or removable ham le portion hereinafter described. Figs. 4 and 5 are longitudinal sectional ifiews illustrating slight modifications.

In the drawings, 2 represents the body of the brush and 3 represents a mass of bristles carried thereby, the portion 2 being provided with an internal recess or a erture 4 leading to the interior of the mass 0 bristles. To the body portion 2 is secured a tubular or hollow handle portion 5 normally closed at its outer end, as by a cap 6, which cap is herein represented as telescopically fitted to the portion 5 so as to be removable therefrom. The parts 5 and. 6 are thus adapted-x to contain and conceal a soap receptacle,

I whiclrreceptacle preferably consists ofa iube 2" oi. such sire as to fit loosely within lie. hollow handle .and. terminating at its inner end in an elongate'd eck or noz-z le 8 ai'lapled topass tlironglrtbe a erture 4 in the body portion, the length 0 said. nozzle being such that when the receptacle is in its normal dle, thus overcoming a serious objection which exists in all cases in which the material lias to pass through a passage in the body of the: brush after it leaves the reccptacle and before it reaches the bristles, in Which case, said passage always remains filled with the material after the brush has once been used, so that when the receptacle is removed the material left in this passage is a t to harden and choke up the passage, as Well as to become foul and otherwise render the device impracticable and ,undesirablc. My construction also contributes to the cleanliness of the device by preventing any of the contents of the reservoir from coming in contact with the body of the brush, and to the same end I prefer to make the tube 7 of glass or other vitreous and transparent or translucent material, which also makes it possible to determine by inspection the quantity of material contained in such tube at any time, by first removing the receptacle from the hollow handle.

For expelling the contents of the receplacle I provide a piston 9 originally located at the outer end of the tube 7 and having means for forcin it forward as desired, such as a threaded rod 10 passing through said piston and extending longitudinally within the tube 7 from one end to the other and also through a thin sheet metal cap 11. which closes the outcrend of said tube, being shouldered to bear against the interior .of said .capand provided at its outer end ",x'vith a. cross bar 12 or other suitable rotat' 'inlgigevice. Inasmuch as glass tubing can- IiOli! e drawn or blown with as uniform an internal diameter as exists in the ease of a bored tube, I construct the piston f) in such manner that it will be ,capable of a slight compression or expansion in an ed ewise direction and will thus adapt itsel per- The provision of the rotation o the bar 14 the lugs 15 w1 fectly to the internal contom" of the tube 7 as it is moved along the same. I have found that a disk of felt is well suited to form such a piston, as it has suflicient compressibility and elasticity to adapt itself to the tube? as above described and also promotes economy of construction, because it does not have to be internally threaded to correspond with the rod 10 but may be caused to ada t itself to the threads on the latter b mere screwing said rod through the dis Suc a piston, if properly fitted to the tube, will be forced forward by the rotation of the rod 10 without itself rotating with res set to the tube, so that the employment 0 a longitudinal rib or head on the tube for preventing the rotation of the piston is not necessary.

In preparing the receptacle for use, after the tube 7 has been filled with the desired material and the remaining parts have been assembled in proper relation, the cap 11 is secured to the outer end of the tube, preferably by spinning its edge over an annular bead formed on said outer end, and the nozzle 8 is then lightly sealed in any suitable manner. A sim 1e and inexpensive form of receptacle is t 'us provided which may be furnished to customers independent] of the brushes proper, so that the user 0 a brush may remove an empty receptacle and replace it by a full one as often as is necessary. It is contemplated in practice that the users will throwaway the receptacles as fast as they have been emptied, and to this end those features which render the receptacle inexpensive of construction are of considerable importance, as is the fact that the receptacle itself cannot be readily re filled.

In using the brush, the rod 10 may evidently be rotated directly by means of the cross bar 12, if the cap 6 is first. removed but I prefer to provide for rotating said rod without removin the cap 6 or any other part of the ban le of the brush, to which end the bar 12 is provided with a air of outwardly-extendin In 13 adapted to form one member 0 a c utch, the'complemental member of which consists of a similar bar 14 located on the inner face of the closed end portion of the handle oflth'e brush and provided with two inwardly-extending la 15 so arranged that uponthe 1 eventually engage the lu 13 and then rotate the latter and with t cm the rod 10 in an obvious manner. As shown in Fig. 1 the bar 14 is secured ,to a pin 16 rotatably mounted in the end of the cap 6 and provided on the exterior of the cap with an operating head consisting of a milled disk 1 whereby provision is made for rotating the rod 10 without rotating the cap 6, but 1t will be evident that said bar 14 might be rigidly secured to said cap 6,115 shown in Fig. 4, in which case the rotation of the rod 10 would be secured by rotating the cap itself. .In either case I provide means for preventing the rotation of the rece taole 7 with re spect to the body portion 0 the brush, such as lugs 18 and 19 carried by said parts respectively and located in position for lateral engagement one with the other, as shown in Fig. 2.

Instead of bein composed of the separate portions 5 an 6, the entire handle of the brush may be made removable at the point 20, as shown in Fi 5, with substantially. the same results, orioth constructions ma be employed in the same brush, as in Fig and the etails of construction of my brush and receptacle may be modified in various other ways without de arting from my invention, as will be evi eat. 85

I claim as my invention: 1. A fountain brush comprisin ,a body portion carrying a mass of brist es and a hollow hand e portion, a removable rece tacle contained within said hollow han e portion and having an elongated dischar nozzle which is adapted to pass through said body portion and mto the mass of bristles and is connected to the bod of the ramp tacle so as'to be necessarily inserted and re moved therewith, and means for discharging the contents of said receptacle through its elongated nozzle.

2. In aefountain brush, the combination of a body portion having an o ening leadin b0 the interior of the mass of bristles, a ho ow handle carried by said body portion, a detachable receptacle located within the handle and having an elongated integral discharge nozzle ada ted to pass through the opening in the body portion and beyond the utter into the mass of bristles and means for discharging the contents of said receptacle upon the bristles.

3. In a fountain brush the combination with the body portion and bristles of a 1101: low handle carried thereby a detachable receptacle located within sai handle, in position to discharge its contents upon the bristles, a piston contained in said receptacle and means for operating the same, and means 0 erable from the exterior of the handle or detachably engaging and oper-; ating said piston-operating means. 4. In a fountain brush the' combination with the body portion and bristles of a hollow handle carried thereby and comprising a-removable portion, a detachable receptacle debated within the handle in position todischarge its contents upon the bristles, a piston contained within, said receptacle and means for operating the same, and means carried by the removable portion of the handle for detachably engaging and operating said piston operating means.

5. In a fountain brush, the combination with the body portion and bristles of 'a hollow handle carried thereby and comprising a removable portion, a detachable receptacle located within said handle, in position to discharge its contents upon the bristles, a piston contained in said receptacle and a threaded rod for operating the same, a clutch member connected to said rod on the exterior of the receptacle, and a cooperating clutch member carried by the brush.

ti. As an article of manufacture,

fountain brushes havin rotatable means on i the handle thereof, said receptacle comprising a tube closed at one end and having at its other end an elongated discharge nozzle of restricted diameter, a piston mounted to slide longitudinally in said tube, a threaded rod passing through said piston and through 1 the closed end of the tube, and means carricd by said rod on the exterior of. the tube adapted to be rotated by the rotatable means on the brush handle.

7. As an article of manufacture, a brush comprising in combination a body portion having an opening leading to the bristles, a hollow handle carried by said body portion and adapted to receive a detachable rcccp- 5 taclc provided with ejecting un-ans for the the removable handle port1on, and operable from the exterlor of a a recep- I tacle adapted to be detachablv applied to contents thereof, said handlecomprising a I removable portion, and a clutch member for engaging said ejecting means carried by the removable handle portion, on the interior of the latter.

8. In a fountain brush, the combination of a body portion having an opening leading F through the same into the mass of bristles carried thereby, a hollow handle carried by l said body portion and comprising a removable portion having a closed outer end, a receptacle adapted to be removably inserted l into said hollow handle. said receptacle having an elongated nozzle adapted to pass through the opening in the body portion and into the mass of bristles, a piston located in said receptacle and a threaded rod passing through said piston and through the outer end of the receptacle, means for preventing the rotation of said receptacle with respect to the body portion'of the brush, and cooperating clutch members carried respectively by the outer end of the threaded rod and by said removable handle portion.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 7th day of Novcmber, 1906.

WALTER L. CLARK.

Witnesses:

F. S. TU'ITLE, E, l). (hmownnt. 

